Gaspare Pacchierotti News
Italian opera singer
- soprano
- Italy
- opera singer, actor
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2020-01-31 07:31:46
A touch of heaven: The Divine Muse, Mary Bevan & Joseph Middleton in Wolf, Schubert & Haydn
[…] beautifully shaped lines. The final Wolf song in this group, Gesang Weylas (Weyla's song) is rapt as Weyla accompanies herself on a harp. Then comes Schubert's setting of Goethe's Ganymed, in complete contrast to the Wolf, this is buoyant yet gentle.Haydn's cantata Arianna a Naxos is a large scale piece, probably written in 1789 (we are not sure for whom). He performed it whilst he was in London in 1791 with the (male!) castrato Gaetano Pacchierotti as the heroine. It is a sequence of recitative and aria, in which love-drunk Ariadne wakes up, wonders where Theseus is, climbs a hill and sees him leaving, ending with a second aria. We start in quite an intimate manner, expressive but with a nice feeling of classicism, this leads to the first aria, full of attractive anxiety, then the dramatic recitative where Mary Bevan goes from big and bold to touching. In her […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2016-06-29 22:02:33
Scientists Do A Detailed Exam Of The Body Of One Of The Greatest-Ever Castati
“Among the castrati, Gaspare Pacchierotti was probably one of the most famous. The remains of Pacchierotti were exhumed for the first time in 2013, for a research in the reconstruction of his biological profile, to understand the secrets behind his sublime voice and how the castration influenced the body. “
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2016-06-29 11:00:08
What happened when they exhumed a famous castrato
Three years ago, archaeologists dug up the remains of Gaspare Pacchierotti (1740-1821), one of the great mezzo castratos, vastly popular in Venice, Milan and London. ‘Pacchierotti’s voice was an extensive soprano, full and sweet in the highest degree: his powers of execution were great, but he had far too good taste and good sense to make a display of them where it would have been misapplied, … conscious that the chief delight of singing and his own supreme excellence lay in touching expression and exquisite pathos,’ according to a London observer. Pachierotti was unusually tall – over six foot – and politically indiscreet. He was twice jailed for speaking his mind. The archaeologists’ report has just been published; a summary can be read here. Among its conclusions: The anthropological analysis of Paccherotti’s remains underlined the presence of many characteristics related to castration: high stature, open epiphyseal lines in the hips, […]
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